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Looking Ahead to the New Year: “Can’t Wait” Books of Early 2017

Happy 2017! As we get ready to begin another year, it’s time to look ahead and geek out over the Science Fiction and Fantasy reads I’m most excited about. Not only is it fun to organize my reading and to make lists, they also have the added benefit of focusing my attention to the highly anticipated releases that I’d like to check out. There’s already an impressive tower of books on my TBR pile, and these are only from the first quarter of 2017. While I’m under no illusions that I’ll be able to read them all, hopefully I can get to most of them (and also put some new books on people’s radars)!

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough (January 31) – A thriller-suspense about a love triangle from hell. Apparently, the ending is a shocker! I’m a huge fan of Pinborough and I’m really excited about this one.

Caraval by Stephanie Garber (January 31) – One of my most highly anticipated YA releases, Caraval is about two sisters who escape their cruel father to end up at Caraval, a once-in-a-lifetime magical show.

Empress of the Fall by David Hair (March 9) – The beginning of The Sunsurge Quartet, a sequel series to The Moontide Quartet, which I’m a bit behind on. Hopefully that won’t prevent me from enjoying this one!

Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker (March 21) – The sequel to Borderline, which was an amazing book! Can’t wait to catch up with Millie and the Arcadia Project.

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (March 21) – It feels a bit strange pondering a new space opera novel by Scalzi that’s not from the Old Man’s War sequence, but I’m looking forward to this start of a new series nonetheless.

Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel(April 4) – I had mixed feelings about the execution behind the first book, but the story of Sleeping Giants itself was tantalizing enough that I am pretty intrigued by the sequel.

Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn (April 11) – One of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history has returned to the new canon. I saw him in Star Wars Rebels and I’d love to know more about this reiteration of Thrawn.

Ararat by Christopher Golden (April 18) – A supernatural thriller set on Mount Ararat in Turkey. It seems I have a thing for horror novels set in cold places.

Skullsworn by Brian Staveley (April 25) – A new standalone epic fantasy by Brian Staveley that returns to the world of his Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series.

41 Comments on “Looking Ahead to the New Year: “Can’t Wait” Books of Early 2017”

Some good ones there. I don’t know if I’ll get to Bear and Nightingale in January, but it will be read sometime next year. And I’d like to read Sleeping Giants and start on the Lady Trent books. I saw you included other books from those series and they made me think of them.

And here I was musing about new year’s resolutions and delving more into my TBR pile and backlists, when I saw all the pretties on your list… What can I say? Temptation always wins! 🙂
McDonald’s Luna is the one I’m most looking forward to in the immediate future, but there are many interesting new entries on your list that I can’t help but add to my list. Temptation is strong, and I’m weak… 😀

Thankfully, in the last 2 years I have started realizing that there are more “good” books than I can ever read, so if I miss some, that is ok because I’ll still read plenty of other “good” books. With age comes wisdom 😉

I’m really curious about Caraval…I’ll be waiting to see some blog reviews before I commit though! I hope I like the Immortals because I LOVE the cover for Winter of the Gods and need an excuse to buy it! I’ll have to wait until 2018 for the paperback version of Silence Fallen though…gah! Ararat is exactly the kind of book I love but I’m not really a fan of the author so I’m not sure about it…might have to give it a try though!

I don’t think I’ve ever tried Christopher Golden (I have read a graphic novel he co-wrote but I’m not really counting that) and I know of others who haven’t really clicked with his writing, so I’m really curious. I hope it works for me 🙂

Happy new year, Bibliosanctum! The #1 book I can’t wait for is Winds of Winter, the next in the Song of Ice and Fire series. I refuse to watch the TV show because spoilers. I kind of stopped believing in a 2017 release, though. 😦

So many good books! *bookmarks this post* Red Sister is the only ML book that sounds appealing to me thus far, so I’m gonna keep an eye out for buzz on that one.

I couldn’t resist reading Etched in Bone ahead of schedule and I absolutely loved it. Not sure what you’ll think of it though based on your experience with book 4, so I’m curious to hear how you like it!

Woo, I spy a lot of urban fantasy that I’m looking forward to! I’m also planning to branch out more into adult fantasy instead of just sticking to YA, so will definitely be using your blog as a resource.

I probably the opposite and need to try more YA, but the tough part is singling out the exceptional ones since there’s always sooo many young adult releases. I’m going to be looking out for others’ reviews 🙂

First of all THANK YOU for this! Even if I am feeling a little overwhelmed by all the awesome.

I’ve seen you mention The Bear and the Nightingale several times so I’m excited about that one. I’m also really glad that the next Peter Grant book is coming out! Department Zero is a new one for me and it looks really interesting. Also, I think since I have a hopeless number of series going anyway, I really need t pick up the Anne Bishop series:). 2017 is looking pretty good!

Excellent! I want Six Wakes and A Darkness Absolute big time. Winter of the Gods, and I LOVE that cover of Luna! And I’ll buy Silence Fallen even though I haven’t started that series yet lol! Although maybe I’ll wait for paperback since by the time I get through the series it’ll be out in paperback!

The Bear and the Nightingale, A Conjuring of Light and Bonewitch are all ones I’m looking forward to as well! Especially ACoL because I know it’ll deliver and it will be EPIC. I didn’t read nearly enough new releases in 2016 so hopefully I’ll change that in 2017\

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